{"id":18846,"date":"2015-07-08T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18846"},"modified":"2015-07-10T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:34:20","slug":"tornado-producing-severe-thunderstorm-in-northern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18846","title":{"rendered":"Tornado-producing severe thunderstorm in northern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150708_meteosat10_vis_Italy_tornado_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150708_MET10_VIS_SFCPLOT_12.GIF\" alt=\"Metoesat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metoesat-10 High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eumetsat.int\/website\/home\/index.html\"><strong>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-10 SEVIRI High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above; click to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of an isolated supercell thunderstorm that produced large hail and a violent tornado (1 fatality; estimated EF3 damage) near Venice, Italy<em> (station identifier LIPZ)<\/em> around 1530 UTC on 08 July 2015. Additional information and imagery is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=it&amp;tl=en&amp;js=y&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meteonetwork.it%2Fveneto%2Ftornado-mira-e-dolo-ve-dell8-luglio-2015&amp;edit-text=&amp;act=url\"><strong>meteonetwork<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The corresponding Meteosat-10 Infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below; click to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the development of a very cold overshooting top prior to the development of the tornado (1430-1500 UTC) &#8212; the minimum cloud-top IR brightness temperature was -70\u00ba C<em> (darker black enhancement)<\/em> on the 1445 UTC image. The overshooting top then rapidly collapsed, as seen by the warming cloud-top IR brightness temperatures on the 1515 and 1530 UTC images. Such an overshooting top collapse sometimes occurs prior to tornado formation in a supercell thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150708_meteosat10_ir_Italy_tornado_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150708_MET10_IR_SFCPLOT_12.GIF\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 Infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 Infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A close-up view of the 1500 UTC Metosat-10 Infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) image is shown below, as displayed using <a href=\"http:\/\/wms.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150708_1500utc_meteosat10_ir_Italy_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150708_1500utc_meteosat10_ir_Italy_anim.gif\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 Infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) image, displayed using RealEarth\" width=\"483\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 Infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) image, displayed using RealEarth<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 SEVIRI High Resolution Visible (0.8 \u00b5m) images (above; click to play animation) showed the development of an isolated supercell thunderstorm that produced large hail and a violent tornado (1 fatality; estimated EF3 damage) near Venice, Italy (station identifier LIPZ) around 1530 UTC on 08 July 2015. Additional information and imagery is available from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":18850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meteosat","category-real-earth","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18862,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18846\/revisions\/18862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}